Sunday 31 March 2013
Thursday 21 March 2013
Wednesday 20 March 2013
Group meeting Tuesday 20/03/13
Discussion of how we would all like to show our work individually. We would all like a varied show, with some of us showing simple works, while some are more complex; some interactive and some traditional, some small and some large scale, and some free standing installation works.
New idea: If we have a window space, one 'teaser' day before the show launch when we would all show a piece of our work in the window space of the shop. The following evening we would have a launch night, and then the show would last one full day after that and be taken down that evening.
The show will be advertised with minimal information, i.e. the location, and the date the show will end. Not the opening date or the date and time of the launch night, but when it will end. We want to maintain themes of the transient and the temporary. These adverts could be flyers handed out in the street and discarded, left to be littered around the streets of the city centre.
This way people won't really know what the information is, just that something is going on. Real information about the launch night and the show itself can be communicated by word of mouth. Is this really practical? Is hype too little information?
In terms of a budget, the only things we will have to spend money on (in our ideal scenario) are printing flyers (or posters etc), launch night expenses like food and alcohol, printing or material costs for final pieces... and hopefully the location will be free of charge.
We are still putting out feelers for other locations in case the Den space falls through, we talked about getting in touch with the local council to see if they can tell us who to speak to about empty retail spaces, or to point us in the right direction. I am also waiting on replies from e-mails to contacts in Manchester.
I am thinking about getting in touch with artists who have showed in empty retail spaces, to ask for information about how they acquired their space and the practicalities of showing in a non-art space.
New idea: If we have a window space, one 'teaser' day before the show launch when we would all show a piece of our work in the window space of the shop. The following evening we would have a launch night, and then the show would last one full day after that and be taken down that evening.
The show will be advertised with minimal information, i.e. the location, and the date the show will end. Not the opening date or the date and time of the launch night, but when it will end. We want to maintain themes of the transient and the temporary. These adverts could be flyers handed out in the street and discarded, left to be littered around the streets of the city centre.
This way people won't really know what the information is, just that something is going on. Real information about the launch night and the show itself can be communicated by word of mouth. Is this really practical? Is hype too little information?
In terms of a budget, the only things we will have to spend money on (in our ideal scenario) are printing flyers (or posters etc), launch night expenses like food and alcohol, printing or material costs for final pieces... and hopefully the location will be free of charge.
We are still putting out feelers for other locations in case the Den space falls through, we talked about getting in touch with the local council to see if they can tell us who to speak to about empty retail spaces, or to point us in the right direction. I am also waiting on replies from e-mails to contacts in Manchester.
I am thinking about getting in touch with artists who have showed in empty retail spaces, to ask for information about how they acquired their space and the practicalities of showing in a non-art space.
Westgate Studios in association with East Street Arts presents: Empty
Shop Fronts Exhibitions.
102/104 Kirkgate – Richard Sweeney and Andy Singleton show paper
sculptures and a large scale mural.
An example of a contemporary exhibition in an ex-retail space, visible from the street via the display window and also open to the public as a conventional exhibition. Space is in a state of dis-use, rather than revamped an white-walled.
CLAES OLDENBURG
OLDENBURG OPENED HIS 'STORE' IN 1961, AND FILLED IT WITH SCULPTURES AND OBJECTS INSPIRED BY MERCHANDISE HE SAW IN OTHER SHOP WINDOWS. HE MADE AND SOLD THE ARTWORK FROM THE SHOP, THEREBY CIRCUMVENTING THE TRADITIONAL NOTION OF THE EXHIBITION AND GALLERY. Sunday 17 March 2013
Thursday 14 March 2013
It's okay for me to have nothing to say and be saying it.
I am interested in communication, and how, in what is supposed to be the age of communication with all new ways of communicating with the world, we don't, or can't communicate.
Mine are empty gestures. Gestures that are impotent, strangled and inhibited. I am taking imagery that has been created with the purpose of communication, and taking away it's function. Objects that don't fulfil their function, they are stunted.
Wednesday 13 March 2013
@emptyshops Hi, I'm an art student in Manchester looking for an empty shop to put on a show in May. Can point us in the right direction?
I started e-mailing contacts in the search for a location. I sent this e-mail to the Lionel Dobie Gallery in Manchester, and to a contact from the Empty Shop Network website:
Hi,
I'm part of a group of 2nd year Fine Art students from MMU, and we were wondering whether you could help us out. We are thinking about locations for our end of year show and are interested in using an empty shop space. We got your e-mail address from the Empty Shop Network website, and we saw that you have previously done some work in the North putting on projects.
Could you possibly point us in the right direction? We are looking for someone to help us find an empty space to put on our show in April/May.
Thanks,
Hattie Coombe
Hi,
I'm part of a group of 2nd year Fine Art students from MMU, and we were wondering whether you could help us out. We are thinking about locations for our end of year show and are interested in using an empty shop space. We got your e-mail address from the Empty Shop Network website, and we saw that you have previously done some work in the North putting on projects.
Could you possibly point us in the right direction? We are looking for someone to help us find an empty space to put on our show in April/May.
Thanks,
Hattie Coombe
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Art & Audience
This is the beginning of the Art & Audience unit, the final unit of my second year.
We have got together in groups and began talking about what we want out of our end of year show. The idea that brought us together was the theme of 'transience'. We all chose thus for different reasons, for some it was the work itself that has themes of temporality, time and change be it conceptual and metaphorical or in terms of the medium - for example the act of creating a work being ongoing and ever changing. However others were drawn to the theme with ideas of what they would like out of an exhibition, where it is the show itself that is impermanent.
For me, it was a combination of the two. My source material is advertising publication, from which the images are ever-changing and very temporary. Advertisers have to be constantly creating new images constantly to keep up with audiences and changing times and trends. I was also interested in the idea of a show being un-traditional and alternative in the way that it could be very short-lived and maybe altered, rather than having a normal launch night and it lasting a certain amount of time.
A group of ten of both painting and sculpture students ended up splitting into town groups because of the logistics - a big group would have been hard to organise and to satisfy everybody. So the group I have decided to show with are a group of 5 painting and print-making students, with similar ideas about a show surrounding a topic but the themes of the work exploring it in different ways, interpreting the theme differently and in various media.
We realised that choosing and finding a location for the show is the most important first step. We liked the idea of the building we show in linking to the theme, either being a temporary building or structure, or it being in some sort of transition or change itself - this helping build on the idea of the show and the work being temporary and a transition into something new. This is where the idea came from to use an empty or derelict building, and especially an empty shop. We would quite like to have window spaces, partly for the natural light, and partly for the possibility of showing in the window space itself. This would be ideal for my work, it being on public display rather than just inside the exhibition, considering it is concerned with advertising psychology.
We have a few leads that we hope will help us find our ideal location - an artists collective who often use empty buildings an non-art exhibition spaces; existing friends that may be able to lend their ex-retail space, and links to the council and people in the know about empty buildings.
We have got together in groups and began talking about what we want out of our end of year show. The idea that brought us together was the theme of 'transience'. We all chose thus for different reasons, for some it was the work itself that has themes of temporality, time and change be it conceptual and metaphorical or in terms of the medium - for example the act of creating a work being ongoing and ever changing. However others were drawn to the theme with ideas of what they would like out of an exhibition, where it is the show itself that is impermanent.
For me, it was a combination of the two. My source material is advertising publication, from which the images are ever-changing and very temporary. Advertisers have to be constantly creating new images constantly to keep up with audiences and changing times and trends. I was also interested in the idea of a show being un-traditional and alternative in the way that it could be very short-lived and maybe altered, rather than having a normal launch night and it lasting a certain amount of time.
A group of ten of both painting and sculpture students ended up splitting into town groups because of the logistics - a big group would have been hard to organise and to satisfy everybody. So the group I have decided to show with are a group of 5 painting and print-making students, with similar ideas about a show surrounding a topic but the themes of the work exploring it in different ways, interpreting the theme differently and in various media.
We realised that choosing and finding a location for the show is the most important first step. We liked the idea of the building we show in linking to the theme, either being a temporary building or structure, or it being in some sort of transition or change itself - this helping build on the idea of the show and the work being temporary and a transition into something new. This is where the idea came from to use an empty or derelict building, and especially an empty shop. We would quite like to have window spaces, partly for the natural light, and partly for the possibility of showing in the window space itself. This would be ideal for my work, it being on public display rather than just inside the exhibition, considering it is concerned with advertising psychology.
We have a few leads that we hope will help us find our ideal location - an artists collective who often use empty buildings an non-art exhibition spaces; existing friends that may be able to lend their ex-retail space, and links to the council and people in the know about empty buildings.
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